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A police officer shot and killed a man they said pointed ...

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At first I assumed he was trying to take the firearm into the store to have it repaired, since they stated that the store does repairs. Kinda ridiculous for them not to let a customer bring a firearm in for repairs since that is a service they provide. If Academy requires you wait outside and they come get the firearm to be repaired, I would not be taking my firearm there for repair. However, since it's not known if this was the case, because all they did was buy ammo, the question remains, why would someone carry their firearm openly into the store in order to just buy ammo for it? Something is missing here. The guy made a mistake when he pointed a weapon out the rear window of the truck at police. That much is true. It ended badly for him.

If Academy requires you wait outside and they come get the firearm to be repaired, I would not be taking my firearm there for repair. However, since it's not known if this was the case ...

According to the article in the OP, the procedure at Academy is to bring the gun to the Customer Service counter. Am assuming this would be at the front of the store; it has been at other such shops I've been to. They'll take it from there. No "waiting outside."

As for the comments; News4Jax is the worst reporting in town and the people that post comments on their site are downright nasty. I go there just to read the comments and some are quiete racist as well as anti-gun. Just laugh at them and forget them.

Lived in the Jacksonville area all my life and it just keeps getting worse.